It’s cold enough on the prairies to make ice bubbles. Calgary photographer Chris Ratzlaff spent part of Boxing Day outside, freezing and photographing bubbles. He created the bubbles using a straw with a mixture of corn starch, dish soap and salt. One of the videos taken as a bubble iced over has gone viral, with […]

Television

Ed Weeks knows that many annoyances that can happen during a flight — like crying babies, armrest battles or, if you’re Chrissy Teigen, turning around four hours in because someone boarded the wrong plane. But one thing gets him particularly […]

Music

In terms of sheer volume, 2017 was one of the busiest major concert years in Edmonton history. A number of festival producers noted they struggled to compete with the barrage of entertainment at Rogers Place, which boasted 60-odd shows, including nine alone by Garth Brooks in January. Metal dominated Commonwealth Stadium, notably with ear-shattering visits […]

Books

The Patch: The People, Pipelines and Politics of the Oil Sands Chris Turner | Simon & Shuster $34.99, 340 pages With global warming records being broken regularly these days, 2017 is on track to be yet another year of record-setting heat, and with disturbing signs of human-caused climate change like ferocious storms, rising oceans, disintegrating […]

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